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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

Thomas Mann

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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Love Ourselves Person Quality Reason Time
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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Conscious Life Himself Live Man Personal
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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Achievement Beautiful Face Fate Positive Win
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Astonish Beautiful Original Poetry Solitude Weird
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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Conscious Flow Foundation Life Reproduction Time
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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History Ideas Intellect Life Poison
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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Compromises Goodness Moral Opportunity Politics
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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Clever Health Ideas Man Perfection Refine Unusual

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